• The Rear Column is a play by Simon Gray set in the jungle of the Congo Free State in 1887–88. The story begins after explorer Henry Morton Stanley, has...
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    incompetence in the Rear Column, criticism and condemnation became widespread. Samuel Baker called the story of the Rear Column "the most horrible and...
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    Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (category Deaths by firearm in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    the rear column in the Congo during Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He has often been identified as one of the sources for the character...
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    "was fascinated by the subject of cannibalism." In June 1887, Jameson was left as second in command of the so-called rear column under Major Edmund Musgrave...
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  • includes: The Rear Column, The Critic, Pierrepoint, New Tricks and Lipstick on Your Collar. In 2016, he played the part of Lord Salisbury in the Netflix...
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    Herbert Ward (sculptor) (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    command of Major Edmund Barttelot in the expedition's rear column. Stanley left the rear column, consisting of 250 porters and five officers, in June...
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    Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built to commemorate Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson's decisive...
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    Henry Morton Stanley (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    Stanley appears as a character in Simon Gray's 1978 play The Rear Column. The play tells the story of the men left behind to wait for Tippu Tib while Stanley...
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    Mahdist War (redirect from The Mahdist War)
    was rescued, though the expedition was not without its failures, such as the disaster that befell the rear column. According to the Hewett Treaty of 3...
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    in the context of the automotive industry, is a technology or system that allows steering some or all of a vehicle's wheels without a steering column that...
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